Powder Tobias Wolff Quotes

#1. I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

George Eliot

#2. My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Liz Vassey

#3. By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.

V.S. Carnes

#4. I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

Ana Ortiz

#5. [Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Saul Tanpepper

#6. Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

Muhammad Ali

#8. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou

#9. I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

Bill Cosby